Has Samson Gwede Mantashe found his full strength and what does that mean for the mining sector and the energy sector in the coming years? It seems that the balance of power has shifted away from President Cyril Ramaphosa, not only to Mantashe but also ...
This week however remains the wildest week in politics since the 2007 Polokwane conference. It may very well be the week in which the President ceded his power to power brokers within the ANC. We should all be worried — while we have been focussing on the RET faction, other powerful interests have made their chess moves and they look likely to win.
However a group of people who have been dubbed “the President’s protectors” were reported to have convinced him to stay. We have heard that there were those who were willing to fight for him legally, however, we didn’t hear much about those who were going to fight for him politically and protect him from those on the ANC parliamentary benches who were willing to vote for the establishment of an impeachment committee. Those seasoned ANC political players may very well have captured the President.
It seems that the balance of power has shifted away from President Cyril Ramaphosa, not only to Gwede Mantashe but also to Paul Mashatile. Mashatile was the other dominant voice who was aggressively protecting the President and he is currently campaigning for the position of deputy president. There have been multiple reports on Mashatile and the infamous “Alex Mafia”.
It’s not normal for families to wake up without electricity and go to sleep without electricity. That is an example of state failure, the kind of state failure that we were promised by the President would be a thing of the past. When it comes to how we fix Eskom, I strongly recommend that a seasoned and qualified person from within Eskom’s Generation Division should be empowered and supported to take the helm. Someone who has an engineering background and an understanding of the underlying problems occurring at the power stations and how to fix them.
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